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- Tags: Halifax
F T Jones’ navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 1659 HCU; 1666 HCU; 420 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Cook’s tour; flight engineer; forced landing; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oxford; RAF Tholthorpe; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Wombleton; tactical support for Normandy troops; training
Hastie DFC: The Life and Times of a Wartime Pilot
Tags: 1 Group; 100 Group; 101 Squadron; 157 Squadron; 2 Group; 214 Squadron; 223 Squadron; 3 Group; 4 Group; 6 Group; 8 Group; 85 Squadron; 88 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; B-25; bale out; Beaufighter; Bismarck; Botha; C-47; Chamberlain, Neville (1869-1940); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; entertainment; evacuation; Flying Training School; Gee; Gneisenau; Goldfish Club; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Harvard; He 111; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hudson; Hurricane; Initial Training Wing; Ju 88; Lancaster; love and romance; Martinet; Me 109; Me 110; mine laying; Mosquito; Mussolini, Benito (1883-1945); navigator; Nissen hut; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; Proctor; radar; RAF Banff; RAF Catfoss; RAF Catterick; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Cranwell; RAF Dishforth; RAF Farnborough; RAF Horsham St Faith; RAF Kinloss; RAF Leuchars; RAF Lichfield; RAF Lyneham; RAF Manston; RAF North Coates; RAF Oulton; RAF Padgate; RAF Prestwick; RAF Riccall; RAF Silloth; RAF South Cerney; RAF St Eval; RAF Thornaby; RAF Thorney Island; RAF Windrush; RAF Woodbridge; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945); Scharnhorst; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; Swordfish; Tiger Moth; Tirpitz; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Whitley; Window; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
105 Squadron and Arnold Christian
No 5 Ferry Pool Silloth
Below - Extract from Ned Sparkes log book from 1October 1946 to 18 October…
Tags: aircrew; Anson; Dominie; flight engineer; Halifax; Lancaster; Mosquito; Oxford; RAF Silloth; Wellington
Arnold Christian, Crew and Halifax
Crew: Navigator S/L A L Christian
Observer - EA Wright Esq
Pilot - Maj JLBH Cordes (Retd)
at; RAF…
Operations
Right - document titled "The Reckoning". Giving details of bomber commands sorties, aircraft and…
Tags: 4 Group; 6 Group; 8 Group; 85 OTU; aircrew; bombing; Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); crash; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; killed in action; Lancaster; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Operational Training Unit; P-38; prisoner of war; RAF Bruntingthorpe; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Hamburg operation and combat report
Tags: 431 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; Halifax; Ju 88; pilot; wireless operator
Hamburg operation and aircraft losses
Below - document listing all aircraft lost on squadron with…
Tags: 431 Squadron; bombing; crash; Halifax; mid-air collision; shot down; training
Operations
Right - three short documents one partially obscured two relating to flying bomb sites, and…
Operation Overlord
Top left - newspaper cutting providing account of plan for attack on Merville battery including saturation bombing by Lancasters and ground attack. Goes on with account of actual…
Tags: 1 Group; 4 Group; 5 Group; 6 Group; 8 Group; aircrew; bombing; bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Lancaster; Master Bomber; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders
Operations
Underneath - six short documents with accounts of these six operations…
Tags: 6 Group; 8 Group; aircrew; bombing; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Lancaster; Master Bomber; Mosquito; Oboe; Pathfinders
The Nuremburg raid and target token
Operations, the railway plan
Top left - extract from Ned Sparkes's logbook from 1 March 1944 to 29 March 1944 with operations to Trappes, Le Mans (twice), Brest,…
Tags: 3 Group; 4 Group; 431 Squadron; 5 Group; 6 Group; 8 Group; aircrew; bombing; flight engineer; Halifax; Lancaster; mine laying; Mosquito; RAF Croft; Stirling
Operations
Below - two documents giving accounts of these two operations with types of aircraft used, losses, enemy fighter operations, weather,…
Tags: 431 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; flight engineer; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 5; Lancaster; Mosquito; Oboe; Pathfinders; RAF Croft
Operations
Below left - descriptions of the four operations giving numbers and types of aircraft used,…
Crew
Top right - seven aircrew wearing Mae…
431 Squadron
Tags: 4 Group; 431 Squadron; 6 Group; aircrew; bombing; ground crew; Halifax; Lancaster; RAF Burn; RAF Croft; RAF Tholthorpe; Wellington
Arnold Louis Christian's Biography
Tags: 104 Squadron; 105 Squadron; 13 OTU; 207 Squadron; 218 Squadron; aircrew; Blenheim; Flying Training School; Halifax; navigator; Operational Training Unit; RAF Bicester; RAF Bircham Newton; RAF Debden; RAF Grantham; RAF Hendon; RAF Hornchurch; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Netheravon; RAF Sealand; RAF Swanton Morley; RAF Upavon; RAF Upper Heyford; training
Arnold Christian's Log book
Tags: 104 Squadron; 105 Squadron; 108 Squadron; 13 OTU; 218 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Battle; Blenheim; bombing; Halifax; Harvard; Hornet Moth; Hurricane; Magister; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; Proctor; RAF Bicester; RAF Debden; RAF Netheravon; RAF Sealand; RAF Swanton Morley; RAF Upavon; RAF Upper Heyford; Tiger Moth; training; Walrus
W Sparkes’ navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 1659 HCU; 1668 HCU; 29 OTU; 297 Squadron; 431 Squadron; 85 OTU; aircrew; Anson; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); C-47; Dominie; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; Halifax Mk 7; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lincoln; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Croft; RAF Dishforth; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Lyneham; RAF Silloth; RAF St Athan; RAF Tholthorpe; RAF Topcliffe; training; Wellington
V T Hilton’s observer’s air gunner’s and w/t operators flying log book
Dare to Discover: World War II experiences of V T Hilton
Tags: 192 Squadron; aircrew; arts and crafts; bomb trolley; bombing up; crewing up; FIDO; fuelling; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operational Training Unit; padre; petrol bowser; RAF Foulsham; RAF Rufforth; service vehicle; training; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
M A Niman’s RAF observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
John L Kennedy’s pilots flying log book
Tags: 1660 HCU; 192 Squadron; 20 OTU; 26 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing; C-47; Flying Training School; Halifax; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Martinet; Mosquito; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; radar; RAF Feltwell; RAF Foulsham; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF South Cerney; RAF Torquay; RAF Wing; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington